The Electronic Monitoring (Responsible Persons) (Amendment) Order 2024

Made: 5th March 2024

Laid before Parliament: 11th March 2024

Coming into force: 30th April 2024

The Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 62(2B) of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000[^f00001].

Citation, commencement and extent

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Electronic Monitoring (Responsible Persons) (Amendment) Order 2024 and comes into force on 30th April 2024.

• (2) This Order extends to England and Wales.

Amendments to the Electronic Monitoring (Responsible Persons) Order 2018

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• (1) Article 3 of the Electronic Monitoring (Responsible Persons) Order 2018[^f00002] is amended as follows.

• (2) Omit sub-paragraph (a)(ii).

• (3) For sub-paragraph (a)(iv), substitute—

(iv) Serco Limited, Serco House, 16 Bartley Wood Business Park, Bartley Way, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 9UY (Company number 00242246).

• (4) In sub-paragraph (b), for the words from “G4S” to the end substitute “G4S Care and Justice Services (UK) Limited, 6th Floor 50 Broadway, London, SW1H 0DB (Company Number 00390328)”.

Signed

Gareth Bacon — Minister of State — Ministry of Justice — 5th March 2024

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Explanatory Note

Offenders may be made subject to electronic monitoring as a condition of their release from prison under section 62 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43). Section 62(2B) provides that a person may not be made responsible for the monitoring of individuals unless they are of a description specified by order of the Secretary of State.

Article 2 (2) removes Alcohol Monitoring Systems Limited as a responsible person, and Article 2(3) substitutes Serco Limited for Attenti EM UK Ltd as a responsible person. Article 2(4) replaces G4S Monitoring Technologies Limited with G4S Care and Justice Services (UK) Limited as a responsible person for those subject to a restricted transfer to Scotland and released on Home Detention Curfew.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2000 c. 43. Sub-section (2B) was inserted by section 7(2) of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2018/212, amended by S.I. 2018/1277 and S.I. 2020/418.